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March 3, 2025
Flash Fiction can be as short as one sentence or up to 1,000 words. Flash Dances is a compilation of 100 stories (and a few poems) from members of the Gay Authors Workshop, which meets in London and on Zoom. The authors are from the LGBTQ+ community, but the themes often go outside gay issues.
Quite a few deal with dying and bereavement, including one relating the gruesome death of a male spider narrated in the first person. I also relished a topical story about assisted dying in Benidorm, a new addition to budget holiday options; and Four Black Dresses, in which an undertaker sensitively prepares a closeted transvestite for his cremation.
On a similar note, Last Word, only 13 lines long, ends with a dying woman whispering: “You’ve been a terrible husband, but I forgive you.” Thus ensuring he will never forgive himself. A whole novel encapsulated in two sentences. There are many outstanding contributions in this richly diverse collection.
Quite a few deal with dying and bereavement, including one relating the gruesome death of a male spider narrated in the first person. I also relished a topical story about assisted dying in Benidorm, a new addition to budget holiday options; and Four Black Dresses, in which an undertaker sensitively prepares a closeted transvestite for his cremation.
On a similar note, Last Word, only 13 lines long, ends with a dying woman whispering: “You’ve been a terrible husband, but I forgive you.” Thus ensuring he will never forgive himself. A whole novel encapsulated in two sentences. There are many outstanding contributions in this richly diverse collection.
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